The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-01-09

total credit.
There has been so much said and
written about Morrison and Alsberg
by the San Francisco papers since the
company left there last season, aud so
much has been recopied into the papers
of this city, sthat a HERALD represent
ative Yesterday made it his business to
| learn what the actual facts were relat-
ing to the inside business of this Organi-
cation. What he learned came from
those who had mo axes to grind" with
either party, and may be accepted as
reliable. Miss AIsberg had relatives or
friends in San Francisco who agreed to
furnish the requisite capital for the
young lady to indulge in her over
weening desire for the stage, and a
| seasons tour was arranged with Mr..
! Morrison engaged at stated salary
he having no more interest in the COM
pany's profits or losses than the ad-
vance agent or property man
himself. Measure for Measure and
| Cymbeline were selected as the
two pieces best suited to the
young lady's talents, but it was not
long before it became evident that
those plays no longer possessed "a con-
| temporaneous interest" for the theatre
goers of to day. The first chill was ex-
perienced in this city, and the frost in
creased as they pushed further east
Business at times was something fright
full, but none of the company COM
planned, as Miss Alsberg's hackers con-
tinued to remit the shortage with the
promptest regularity and the most I'M
foit in 40 a
eventually reaching the top round of
the ladder. No purse in the world,
however, could stand the business
which continued tofollow the company,
and at length, in Washington, the Cali
fornia remittances suddenly ceased. at
ter, it is estimated, some 900 or Sis
600 had been laid by Miss Alsberg's
hackers upon the altar of her am biton.
The little crowd of Californians were
pauic-struck, but Morrison determined
to fight on. He had for some time seen
that his repertory possessed no drawing
powers. and did what he ought to have
done before-shelved it, and took up
version OF Faust and Marguerite by oar
own DR.. Gustavus Haas, of HaaSinlne
memory. This soon proved to be no
go, but the favor with which his own
part of MephiSto was received induced
Morrison to think that there might be
some success for a reconstructed
version of Goethe's masterpiece, and
The present copy of the play was Sc
cured. BY some great sacrifices OF a
personal nature, he raised the money
to pay Voegtlin for the fine scenery,
and started out pluckily in Chicago to
win his way back homeward.
." Nothing" said several members OF the
troupe to the writer yesterday, but
Mr.. MorriSOn's pluck AID sense OF
honor prevented the whole thing from
going up in Chicago; and II II hadn't
been for him we would have been
tramping the pRvements OF that city to-
day, 500 miles from home" The
struggle from Chicago westward has
been one the company frankly speak OF
as having been ''long and tough a
big night in Denver. when as a specuIa-
ton they put on Under the GaSlight"
and turned 500 people away, did some
thing towards putting them Oh their
feet again, and the success they have
experienced here has made something
Of the old smiles play around the
harassed MorriSon'S cheeks again.
After Provo tomorrow night, they steer
for Virginia City, and from thence
home, where, if all the deep remarks
uttered by various members the other
night around the stage mean anything,
the original hackers of the Morrison
AlSberg enterprise will be favored with
some lively serenades. Tie lady, we
presume, will retire to her bower for that
good long rest she must so sadly stand
in need of. Poor girl, one can not help
plying her-though she did fly out into
the cold world fully aware of the guide
posts that marked so many ruins IN
the same course she was pursuing. She
Is g lser bird now than then, anc Is
she nurses her shattered wings she VAL
think bi tarly over her brief day-drea'a
r~ star. and learn at last. what every
one The world over refuses 10 learn out
at su C,--oaris n-5-.nat the ladder 5i
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